Twitter API Pro Launched: Elon Musk-Run Platform Launches USD 5000 per Month API Tier for Startups
Elon Musk-run Twitter has launched a new API (Application Programming Interface) tier called -- "Twitter API Pro" for startups that costs $5,000 per month.
New Delhi, May 26: Elon Musk-run Twitter has launched a new API (Application Programming Interface) tier called -- "Twitter API Pro" for startups that costs $5,000 per month.
With the tier, developers will be able to fetch one million tweets per month, post 3,00,000 tweets per month, and gets access to the full archive search endpoint.
"Today we are launching our new access tier, Twitter API Pro," Twitter Dev tweeted on Thursday. Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Implant Gets US FDA Approval for First Human Trials.
"Experiment, build, and scale your business with 1M Tweets per month, including our powerful real-time Filtered/Stream and Full Archive Search endpoints," it added. Several users expressed their thoughts on this development on Twitter.
"That's cool, but you already killed most Twitter apps by now. And 5K is still too much for most of us. A 1K plan could make sense... but then again it's too late," a user commented.
"5k is like half of our monthly budget as a startup... quite out of touch pricing," another user said. Moreover, one more user mentioned, "No developer will ever trust Twitter again". Elon Musk Bats for Layoffs in Silicon Valley: Outgoing Twitter CEO Asks Tech Companies To Lay Off Employees Like He Did.
In March, Twitter launched its new paid API platform with free, basic, and enterprise access tiers. These three levels include a basic 'free' level primarily intended for content posting bots, a $100 per month 'basic' level, and an expensive 'enterprise' level.
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